Christopher McQuarrie on competing with his past movies: "We're going to bury Top Gun"
EXCLUSIVE: Mission: Impossible &n꧂dash; Dead Reckoning Part One director says his only competition is himself

Mission: Impossible is back for a seventh installment with this summer's Dead Reckoning Part One, which sees franchise regular Christopher McQuarrie back in the director's chair. His last collaboration with Mission: Impossible star Tom Cruise was last year's hugely successful 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Top Gun: Maverick – a tough act to follow, some 🐈might say, but the only way is up for McQuarrie.
"We don’t see ourselves in competition with Bond or 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:John Wick. We love those movies, and we admire those ൲filmmakers, and we want to see those guys win. All we’re really doing is competing with ourselves," McQuarrie says in the new issue of , which is out on newsstands on Thursday, June꧒ 22.
"And coming away from Top Gun, we looked at that movie, and said, 'We’re going to bury those guys. We’re going to crush Top Gun.' That’s how we look at it. Our only rivals are ourselve𝕴s. You’ll see things in Part Two that benefit entirely f⭕rom everything we learned from Maverick."
Alongside Cruise, Dead Reckoning Part One sees the return of cast members including Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, and Vaness Kirby, along with new faces like Guardian of the Galaxy's Pom Klementieff. The franchise's eighth installment, Dead Reckoning Part Two, is set to follow in June 202ꦡ4.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One arrives in cinemas in the UK on July 10 and in US cinemas on July 12. In the meantime, check out our guide to the other most highly anticipated 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming movies in 2023 and beyond.
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